Topic: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information - page 1366. (Read 2761645 times)

I've been following Nxt for a little while, although it's hard to keep up with this thread!  This is my first post.

I've seen several questions and efforts at characterizing aspects of the blockchain.  I've been doing some exploratory analysis and have several plots to share.  I've posted what I've done so far here:

http://brosephus.github.io/nxt-explore/

I've learned a lot and hope this might be useful for others.  I'm happy to look into anything that might be of interest to anyone.

You want to make it simple and easy? I repeat myself: Get rid of the "deadline" field and put it in the settings or at least replace it with a "select list" with one standard value.

Otherwise: Keep up the good work!

Thanks for voting!

The results are what I had expected.

I've made a 1400 US$ investment and upgraded my development environment to Delphi XE5 and the compatible version of the commercial Developer Express components.

The roadmap for NXT Solaris now looks like this:

1.) Move current version of my code to XE5 and release closed source 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Windows (only trivial changes).
2.) Refactor my code to a MVC architecture, so that I can create separate GUIs while using the same version of the business logic code.
3.) Create new GUIs for Windows and OS X using the same business logic, but based on the cross-platform Firemonkey libraries (technically possible targets are Windows, Android, OSX, iOS). The GUIs will not be as sexy and powerful as the closed-source Windows version, though (no Ribbon interface, no filtering, sorting, grouping in data grids, not so many icons etc..), but will still very much resemble what is in the closed-source client.
4.) Release open-source Windows version (32 and 64 bit) based on FireMonkey.
5.) Release open-source OSX version based on FireMonkey.

=> At this point you could decide if you want to use the open-source Windows and OSX version or the closed-source, slightly more sexy and powerfull Windows version.

I will reevaluate if I do versions for Android and iOS at a later point, however I will keep this option in my mind when refactoring the code in step 2. The poll shows that 25% of all voters would use it, but it also depends on which alternatives are available at that point. I would also need to invest another 500 US$ to go mobile and I don't want to do this now.

I will not target Linux, since I technically can't. Someone else might want to jump on this.

I don't know the timeline for the roadmap, so don't ask. ;-) I'll take a week of from my day job next month to get a bit of this done.

The results are what I had expected.

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People here are idiots. Of course its worth sending this guy some NXT with a full description of the project. You only need to send 1000 or less for him to see how it works. That many followers and someone who is reported in financial pages is a damn better seed marketing investment than 99% of the FB crap ideas on here.

Anyway, I have almost no NXT but i'll send 100NXT if that all you need to show him the system just a complimentary amount for him to check the system. Asking him to wade through buying NXT from BTC on some exchange you will proabably already lose him in terms of being a high profile supporter/investor of NXT. People are beyond stingy without any understanding of how the real world works. The guy is actually asking to know about what is being done with NXT, why the hell would you go out of your way to be antisocial. He's just a guy who wants to know about NXT.....

Honestly though a full explanation and include the info graphic someone made here is all you need, I wouldn't give him a crappy client we are using at the moment or he might see it as not user friendly for the masses to invest or promote.

Hey,

First time posting in this forum

First of all great thanks to all the contributors of this great project! I've been following the threads in this forum and the one at nextcoin.org for a couple of weeks now... impressive comunity

Do we have any news of the Miami conference attendees?

And what about nexern's client, is the ETA still jan 27?

Best,
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Hi Zahlen, the passphrase issue is very important but the lenght is probably more important  than using special characters

I reccomend the Diceware system: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html,

A 16 words passphrase with diceware has 7776^16 combinations and cannot be brute-forced, it is also easier to write and memorize

From my reading it seems Keepass has a good random password generator too

Should not we try to invent better distribution of coins?

Yes I think genesis block could have been generated later, perhaps in December, perhaps on Jan 3rd and source code could be revealed also later in February or so.

I've made a wiki article about generating strong passphrases, and why Nxt requires longer passphrases than what folks are usually accustomed to: http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/How-To:GenerateStrongPassword.
This is important, so I'll try to keep improving it. Feel free to post comments and criticisms in the discussion page, or jump right in and edit.

IMO, we need clients to make all this clear (linking to a wiki article that people may not read through isn't sufficient). Maybe have them enforce password length, or some kind of minimum complexity threshold.

I'm all for helping users understand the choices available to them and the consequences of their choices. I'm not for using password generators, whether in-built into the client or third party, which avoids all this understanding (not to mention the attack vectors that they can open up). Aids like KeePass are good, but only after folks understand the basics.

Is there a lock in 5.10 in editing any *.html files in webapps? I always add a new title for the wallet (address of my site) and it wasn't possible to launch the client after this.

The GUIs will not be as sexy and powerful as the closed-source Windows version, though (no Ribbon interface, no filtering, sorting, grouping in data grids, not so many icons etc..)

Of course not
I think cryptocoins should serve better to people and if someone is hoarding the money its sad.
If Bill Gates loose 99% of his wealth he even dont recognize it and still can live comfortable life. But if someone poor in China or elsewhere gets just a fraction of bitcoin or NXT it could change their lives.
Should not we try to invent better distribution of coins? and not just saying that distribution of NXT is 10x better than BTC and thus we are proud of it?

People should bear in mind that it is forbidden to take anything with them to grave. What they would do with all that money after they die??? I cannot understand them.

2.8% on BTC -  I have not seen such high fees anywhere else
and Bter volume dropped down.

I wasn't so sold on the first draft of the letter to Mark Cuban. Here is an alternative:
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Unlike other currencies with PoS mining PoW mining,
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